"Like [Andrew] Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement," he says. "It's everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement."
That's Steve Bannon, Trump's hire for White House Svengali.
My comments: The 1930's were exciting in a BAD way. Economic nationalist movements ... yep, they had 'em there. Plus trade and tariff wars ... it didn't work then, except again, in a bad way. But hey, it'll work this time, it just needed the right guy running things .. that's what socialists say about socialism's century of failure too, isn't it?
"Throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks" That was FDR all the way up till Pearl Harbor. His experiments gave us a decade of depression. |
